Secretary of State Insists U.S. Not Disengaging from the Region

DAVOS, Switzerland—Middle East powers on opposing sides of Syria's civil war used an international conference here to demand the removal of all foreign fighters from the battlefield, while U.S. officials worked to dispel the notion that they are "disengaging" from the region.

Iran, a major ally of the Syrian regime, and Turkey and Saudi Arabia, which back the rebels, came to the rare consensus in an effort to help along...